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Monday, January 29, 2007

News of the Weekend (January 27-29)

Was the ASAT launch part of an internal Communist power struggle? That's what Lee Ming (Epoch Times) believes.

More on matters inside Communist China: Communist China admits its ecology is a mess (BBC); the regime is less honest about organ harvesting (Epoch Times). The cadres are concerned about Olympic corruption (BBC); Boycott 2008 has more pressing and immediate concerns.

More reaction to the ASAT launch: Mark N. Katz sees the launch as a reason to get out of Iraq (United Press Int'l via Washington Times); yours truly does not agree. Michael Goldfarb (Worldwide Standard) and James Hackett (Washington Times) are more focused on the issue at hand.1.3 billion customers trumped by fifty-odd million thieves: Free-market capitalism does not exist without the rule of law. Andrea Mandel Campbell (Macleans) reveals just how far away the Chinese Communist Party is from the rule of law in business transactions, complete with Canadian victims.

Communist China claims a piece of Korea, again: This time it's the Mount Paektu region, an area currently "split between China and North Korea" (One Free Korea). This is a partial rehash of the Communists' "Koguryo" campaign, by which they claim "historical" title to almost all of Stalinist North Korea (third item).

Ignorant Comment of the Day: Today's dubious prize goes to Robert Carlin and John W. Lewis (Washington Post) for this shockingly bad representation of the Stalinists' point of view on the six-party talks: "Three strategic foes - China, Japan and Russia - sit in judgment, apply pressure and (to Pyongyang's mind) insist on the North's permanent weakness." Communist China is a strategic foe of SNK?! Please.

More on Communist China's Koreancolony: The U.S. makes its ban of luxury exports to SNK official (OFK). The Stalinists rip South Korea for - get this - internet censorship (OFK). Daily NKcalls on the new United Nations Secretary General to focus on human rights abuses in SNK. A Stalinist sympathizer is arrested in Japan on suspicion of "dispatching workers without properly notifying the labor minister" and "providing cutting-edge technologies to Pyongyang" (UPI via Washington Times).